Would you kill someone to save others?

I have the same discussion going on over at my forum; http://www.BeyondDiscussions.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10 and I have been getting interesting responses.

So here is the scenario;

You are on a runaway rail car and the brakes have failed. You assess the path in front of you and realize you are going to run over a group of ten people. There is no warning horn and they will not be able to hear you. However, you realize that there is another railway to switch to but there is a man stuck on the track. If you are to switch the rail car to the alternate track, the stuck man will certainly be killed. Conversely, if you choose to not move the rail car on the alternative track, the ten people will certainly be killed.

The rules here are that you have to choose between deliberately killing the stuck man or doing nothing in which case the ten men will die. You cannot pick some alternative solution such as jumping off the rail car or killing yourself. Don't debate whether the ten people or the one man are good or bad people, or whether you know any of the people personally. You know nothing about any of them except that they are on the track.

So the question is do you kill the one stuck man in order to save ten? He is but one and the ten are many. However, if you were not present on the rail car, the ten men would die anyway. You have the power to choose who lives and who dies. The ten men are already in the path. Should they be the ones to die? Who are you to choose the fate of either choice?

Do you use your free will to deliberately kill the man who would have remained alive, or do you decide you cannot take such a responsibility, and just let fate happen.

 

no i will not. i will find another way to save it.

 

I just run away from it.. let fate happen.

 

I believe that things happen for a reason and who am I to choose?

I would go with fate.

Thanks Brian

 

If fate is involve then I will let fate decide, but IF I where to judge which is very selfish I would turn the car and let the man alone get killed rather than 10 will die. After all 1 is STILL lesser than 10.

 

No,i haven't face this type of situation yet.

 

I think no one here faced this kind of situation yet.. He just asked what will you do, not what did you..

 

i cant say on it any thing,the god is intersted in those thing that will...................

 

Watch this video and you will know my answer. The video is about Story of a Father's Love Faced With an Unfathomable Circumstance and Choice .
[video=youtube;Lczz4hAQ4MQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lczz4hAQ4MQ[/video]

 

if kill a fly can save a presong ,I will kill it

 

Right.. Killing someone isn't my cup of tea.

 

me too , I don't like these kind of stuff

I surely will find another way to do it

 

It depends upon situation to situation ,but much difficult to take correct decesion.

 

may be i can